A 20 megapixel HD-capable phone by 2012? Sony Ericsson says yes

Umm, are you taking pre-orders yet? At a recent press conference in Sweden, Sony Ericsson spoke of its projected plans for the not-so-distant future. In its view, high-end handsets will be quite the spec showcase when 2012 rolls around, which of course is just over three years from now. Imagine, if you will, a Sony Ericsson handset packing a 12 – 20 megapixel shooter, full HD video recording capabilities,a 1024 x 768 pixel display, a 1 GHz processor and 100+ Mbps data speeds by way of LTE. Would you like fries with that? Of course we love where SE is going with its vision but we’re not exactly sure how feasible this projection is. Unless Sony Ericsson plans to throw some intense battery research into the mix, its 2012 wonder phone is probably looking at a battery life of around 15 minutes between charges.

Sales of additional batteries are also expected to increase by a 2700% margin.

Manny

I don’t think we’ll have to wait till 2012 to see those kind of specs on a phone.

I say end of 2010

Ben

….And with the rapidly advancing technology they will be able to reduce it to the size of a small suitcase.

Joe The Plumber

Since when did Sony Ericsson even make it to VGA video recording on their phones?

GoatPervertor

I would like to see the schematics on internal cooling for such a fast processor in a handheld device the size of a cellular phone.

Francis

“high-end handsets will be quite the spec showcase when 2012 rolls around, which of course is less than three years from now”

I might have missed this lesson in school, but as it is only 2008, exactly 3 years from now would still only be 2011. Good try BGR!

Kevin G.

BG, do you really think that everything about technology would get better, but everyone would just ignore the fact that it needs a battery to run it? It seems common sense that with all those technology advancements that battery improvements would also come along…. Have a little vision….

Jose H

Mms messages will die?

Black93300ZX

No way, I’m calling BS on most of it. Maybe a 12MP camera in a phone, maybe 25MBPS connection, maybe 1ghz processor… But surely not 20MP, 100MBPS, and 1ghz.

http://www.k5live.com likeabite

You guys can’t be that cynical or naiive. We’re already at 8mp for phones and we just started having 3MP cameras. I’m sure the Chinese and Japanese are using 12MP cameras already and by with the rapid advancements in tech and cameras already reaching 20MPs I wouldn’t be surprised to see this within a year or two. The HD and screen resolutions might push it to three though because of the small motherboards and screens they have to work with.

@ Zach funny comment about the battery life and that has always been the issue so they better get on that before they waste any more energy on the phoens themselves.

Lil’ B

It’s gonna need a Diehard car battery to run off.

Brandson

20mp camera phone… Unless they plan on fitting a full frame sensor in there, the noise is going to be unbearable. They might want to try making less-noisy 2 and 4mp camera phones instead, but what do I know.

http://www.myspace.com/datechnologyking mr. Hi-Definition

This is to be expected. The technology is always there, someone just needs to put it out.

MadMike

HD camera, but only XGA resolution. Yeah FAIL.

MadMike

HTF do you get the avatars on the posts?

mikemick

Nope, not even close on any of those specs I say. Some of these are ridiculous anyways. 20MP camera on a phone? That is just dumb. Why would a casual person need or want that many MP? They should perfect a lower MP and then move up. Right now MP isn’t the problem with cell phone photography. Bad low light performance (cause noise) and super-slow shutter speeds (cause motion blur) are the problems with cell phones.

I like the HD video description…”similar to high-end HD camcorders of today”. I’d like to know what they consider high-end. LOL. I doubt I have the same opinion of what “high-end” is with Sony.

Joey

Sorry but ridiculous. SONY does this stuff *all* the time — huge ideas, lackluster delivery. They have the occasional winner but overall? Not good.

I used to work there and the running joke was SONY stands for “Soon Only Not Yet.”

http://www.bgr.com Zach Epstein

MadMike – Just register at gravatar.com and use the same email address to comment here that you reg with.

@ Mikemick – you’re right that they need 2 work on the cameras now but there is room for phones like this for people like me who likes to have a camera everywhere I go. If i had a 12 or 20mp camera I wouldn’t have spend $300 on my Kodak 12mp HD Camera

And to anyone doubting this…we already have 8mp cameras running around now so why won’t we reach 12 or 20 in 3-4 years time?

http://www.k5live.com likeabite

Plus BG’s prior post mentioned the Storm 3 having an HD screen so it’s not that far off.

http://www.espressoreport.com Richard Ward

A camera so powerful you can almost *SEE* the dropped calls.

Just what I always wanted.

andy

wont they be out of business by then?>

MadMike

Do you seriously NEED a camera that powerful on a phone? It’s like a razor, soon they will have 52,000,000 blades and it will vibrate and sing “Hail the Chief” in D Minor.

At what point does it become absurd?

labrats5

Hmmm, seems a bit conservative. We should have 1ghz ARM Cortex A8 cpu’s by the end of 2010. They already have a 10mp camera phone planned for 09, so 12mp camera phones will be out even sooner. MP has been doubling on cellphones every 2-3 years, so 20mp in 2012 is almost a given. 100mbps LTE should be out in 2011, but 2012 might be more realistic for the U.S. XGA basically came out in 2007 on the UX. scaling it down a third the area over 4 years should be a piece of cake.

Seriously, has no one on this website noticed the march of technology? In 2004 (Which btw is the same distance from 2008 as 2012) the top of the line phone was a $500 razr with a vga camera and less than Qvga screen. top of the line computers had half a gig of ram. Apple was still on the ipod mini. Phones with color screens were still in the minority. Technology moves fast. Get used to it.